Small monsters. The lamp at the turning -- The cartographer wasps and the anarchist bees -- The lion god and the two gates -- Music for the underworld -- Green glass: a love story -- Ilse, who saw clearly -- The doing adn undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi -- The wretched and the beautiful -- The urashima effect -- Braid of days and wake of nights -- Local stop on the floating train -- The witch of orion waste and the boy knight -- The eve of the planet of Ys -- Courtship displays of the American birder -- The no-one girl and the flower of the farther shore -- The time invariance of snow -- Three variations on a theme of imperial attire -- The cat's tale -- The valley of wounded deer -- The view from the top of teh stair -- Small monsters.
Summary:
The strange, the sublime and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences in this collection of twenty-two stories from an award-winning writer.
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